Russia-Ukraine War — 2026-04-25
Russia Launches Massive Missile and Drone Strike on Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Bila Tserkva
Russian forces launched a large-scale combined missile and drone attack on multiple Ukrainian cities overnight April 24-25, according to Ukrainian media outlets UNIAN and Focus UA. The Ukrainian Air Force reported intercepting strikes involving 13 missiles and 36 drones. Dnipro sustained fires and building destruction with at least 14 wounded, according to Czech News Agency CTK. Kharkiv and
Analysis
Corroborated across multiple Ukrainian and Czech outlets, the April 24-25 combined strike maintains the 2-3 major salvo-per-month cadence that has held since January 2026. Russia willvery likely execute another large-scale combined strike within 14 days, grounded in a 100% base rate across all measured 2026 weekly windows. The 49-munition package, smaller than the April 15 barrage of 324, landed across Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Bila Tserkva simultaneously, trading saturation volume for geographic dispersion that forces Ukrainian air defenses to split interceptors across multiple engagement zones rather than concentrate on a single salvo axis. The reduced package size may instead reflect a reload-gap constraint on Shahed production or broader logistics pressure, in which case salvos would return to April 15 scale once stockpiles replenish.
Corroborated across multiple Ukrainian and Czech outlets, the April 24-25 combined strike maintains the 2-3 major salvo-per-month cadence that has held since January 2026. Russia will